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1t requires only these two things First,
that we shall read intelligently, and to that
end that we master what we actually do
read and, second. that we follow up what
ever interest may be aroused in reading. so
as to make the general tenor of our reading
illustrate itself. ANY person who will
faithfully follow these two simple rules for
one year will be surprised at the extent,
the diversity and the continuity of the
knowledge he has acquired, and others
will be equally astonished at the culture of
mind and the felicity of speech he has at
tained. Within a short time there will be
few subjects upon which he will not be
prepared to speak with pleasure to him
self and others, because there will not
be many subjects on which be is not
more or less informed, and of which he
has not more or less extensively thought.
AS method of acquiring the almost for
gotten art of conversation no method of
profound study could possibly surpass the
simple method of self-culture we have in
dicated. For the greatest charm of culti-
waited conversation is facility in apt and
striking illustration, such as nothing but
extensive and intelligent reading can i'm
part. We 90 not at all agree with Matthew
Arnold's notion that much reading Of
many books is an indispensable condition
of culture; but we do say that to enable
one to share the conversation of cultivated
persons, or even 10 enjoy ii as il can be en-
joyed, requires much reading of precisely
the sort we have described. We might 20
yet further and say that any person who
will read as We suggest will be likely. in a
few years, to have q more cultivated liter
ary taste than the average college graduate
ever acquires.-NissOHri ReDubhcan.
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WHOLE NO. 1925.

cultivation we would produce a fig equ if
not the same, as the varieties of the white
figs of commerce. The rough, rocky foot
hills, and not the rich alluvial bottom or
valley lands, was the natural home of the
fig, aud there it would be most successfully
propagated
lie considered the fruit industry here
only in its infancy. and though he doubted
not that the California farmers had
learned much, yet they had only the pri-
mary lesson in fruit culture. A careful
study of Eastern methods would be prefer
able. Though at one time il was supposed
the insect pests would entirely ruin the in
dusiry in Europe, now their trees and
vines were entirely free from them and in
the most fourishing condition. He bad
noticed people roofing out trees that an
Arab would value as new tree. Instead
OF allowing peach, apricot or prune tree
to bear year after year until the vitality of
its branches was consumed. they ould
from year to year renew its life by b ling.
These trees that we were grubbing t of
our orchards generally had sound roots,
and had they been budded from Ii ne to
time while the branches were fresh and Wig
orous the life of the tree could be prolonged
for years and kept in bearing Persons
had not yet learned the value of these old
trees, yet when allowed to 60 too far bud
ding was impossible.
He thought it foolish TO assume that the
culture of oranges would not be a success in
Central California for, indeed, that had
been already proven beyond shadow of
doubt. Many of the richest and most
profitable orange groves of Europe flour
ished in Just such a climate as the great
Sacramento valley. As for peaches, april
COTS prunes aDples Dears cherries nuts
and berries, there was nothing to be said,
as every one knew Northern California
produced the finest in the world, and that
it was the only place in the United States
where they reached their ulhmatum of
perfectiOn
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| do not allude to the time year-all fish
of course, are to be eaten when in season
only-but the time of day. This is a matter
of greater moment than may at first appear.
Well, then, provided you did not eat too
heartily of supper the night before. for
breakfast You may have almost any kind
of dried fish, or even fresh fish broiled. If
he has enjoyed good nights rest, even a
dyspeptic might enjoy kippered herrings OF
a salmon steak, with broiled eggs to follow.
for breakfast. This would do him more
good, and be more easily digested than tho
much be-praised devilled kidney.
Finnan haddock is quite breakfast dish.
Fish tor dinner comes in we'll before meat
but fish dinner pure and simple is better
still.
For supper do not advise either boiled
or fried fish, but oysters may be taken spar
ingly, or lobster or crab, ii the evening still
be young. Mussels or cookies might be
taken as a forenoon snack.
Shrimps and prawns ought, in my @pin-
ion, TO be eaten before meals, say quarter
Of an hour before. They thus act as a
tonic, and aid to digestion.
may be here allowed to say, parentheiic-
ally, that an inch or two Of tasty cheese,
eaten about five minutes before meal. will
DO far more good than cheese and green
meat after meal.
What should one drink with fish?
/ put the question in a paragraph be-
cause / have been often asked it. Fish
contains more water than meat and for
this reason, and many others, | say that
the less to drink one has with a fish dinner
the better.-CdsseiFs Family Magazine for
March.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREYITlEs.

Bendigo Palmer, king of the vpsy tribe
in California, died in San FRANCISCO on
Thursday.
The death is announced at Paris of Jean
Henri Dupin, French dramatic author,
aged So years.
Sarah Bernhardt is to be arrested on her
return to New York. for having assaulted a
waiter in hotel.
1t is now said that the prohibition
amendments in Michigan were defeated by
temperance votes.
J. T. Sully, the 11-year-old son of an at
tache of the California Southern Railroad
at National City, San Diego county, was
drowned on Wednesday.
1t is understood that by the provisions OF
the will of Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
her magnificent collection of paintings has
been given in its entirety to the MetropoI-
itan Museum of Art. The collection
formed one of the finest private galleries in
the country
The old Temple of Latter-Day Saints OF
Jesus Christ, or original Mormons, at Kirk
land, O., is again the meeting-place of Nor
mons. 1t was built by Joseph Smith, the
murdered Mormon, and Sidney Rigdon,
the translator of the Mormon Bible, in 1884.
But in 1874 the building fell into the hands
of the Utah branch-polygamists in their
views-who seeded from the original
Church.
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DEATH IN LOW-NECK DRESSES.
The Reason Why Actresses do not Take
Cold Wearing Them.

Cold Wearing Them.
''I see that some one has been trying to
head off the hue and cry against decollette
dresses" said a well-known theatrical man
ager, as he toasted his toes on the steam
radiator of his comfortable Office, by
pointing to the low -necked dresses seen on
the stage and the general healthfulness of
the women who wear them. Now. to people
who know nothing about stage life, that
point would seem to be well taken. The
dresses worn ON the stage are usually as
thin and scanty as those worn by society
bellies. The exposure, too, is always
much greater on the sage than at any
ball or party, because the stage is full of
draughts and chills, and is not much
better than a big, windy barn, any
way. Yet we never hear of an actress
taking cold from wearing her fimsy cos
tune however delicate and frail she may
be- 1t seems hard 10 understand why her
society sister should be any more sus-
ceptible. don't know how il is, but there
is a peculiar excitement about going on be-
fore an audience that takes an actress
safely through exposure that would in
evitably kill her anywhere else. You see
them coming out of their warm dressing
rooms on a cold winter night, dressed in
their thin, low cut and sleeveless dresses.
They stand about the wings waiting for
their cues, and the keen wind blows down
their backs and they shiver pitifully in
the cold as though their teeth were going
to drop out Yon wonder how the poor
creatures can get through their parts
but the instant they bear their cues
there is a kind of electric thrill runs
through them, and they step out into the
passage and never feel particle of cold.
The wind may howl around them hard
enough to blow their wigs of, and it may
be cold enough to freeze the f flat from
bone solid, but they don't know it. Ac-
tresses have colds and die of consumption,
but they never catch cold or contract con-
sumption while they are in their stage cos
tunes I know the case of q promising
young woman of good family vino was
playing at a certain local theater few
wears ago. She often wore decOlette dresses
on the stage, but when she married, and
left the stage career for society she was as
well as any woman in America. Two or
three years afteTward she died of pneumo-
MIA contracted at bail, where she had APP
peared in a dress cut 10 lower than many
she used TO wear on the stage. There was
none Of that peculiar excitement that had
warded of cold when she was acting,
however, and she died from the exposure.
You see il won't DO to argue that women
are safe at b.ll with los-cut dresses, be-
cause they don't catch cold on the Stage
when they are 50 atiired. '-.New York Maj
and EJDrcsS
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where he had taken an old skiff which was
half filled with water. Late to-day the
skif was found on this side of the river,
mile below his starting point. Two hun
dred armed men are securing the country
for him, and every avenue of escape is
closely guarded. He is well known, and it
looks as if escape were impossible. The
entire county is aroused.
THE AFFECTED FAMILY.
Mr.. Billion is one of the wealthiest and
most respected farmers in thissection. The
murdered lady was highly respected, and
the heartless and brutal manner in which
she was murdered has cast a gloom
over the entire counties of Colusa and
Butte Mr.. Billion aud son and daugh-
ter, who were attending school at Santa
Clara, arrived from below on this evenings
express, and have just gone out home.
The weapon used was Colts repeating
rifle, which the murderer took with him
He is said to be a most excellent shot, and
no doubt when surrounded will sell his
lie as ueaIly as PosslpIe' 1t 10 ia'nlnS halu
tonight, but the avengers are in the bush,
and hope to dangle his carcass to syca-
more limb before morning.
THE MURDERER SAID TO HAVE REACHED
SACRAMENTO.
AT o'clock tonight it is reported that
he was on the down train to Sacramento
this morning. A reward of 81. 600 is offered
for his capture. Sheriff Beville, of Colusa,
seems to think he escaped to Sacramento,
as a man on the up train, who saw his pho
tograph, says he saw him get off the train
at the Sacramento depot.
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A BIRp-DANcE.-C. F. Holder, the natu-
ralist of New York Central Park, Thus de-
scribes a curious dance of birds: Among
the birds OF the Western hemisphere the
cock of the rock ranks next to the crane in
the strangeness of its evolutions The bird
is confined to South America, and is about
the size of a small pigeon has a bright
orange web in the male, with plume-like
arrangement upon the head. 1t is proud
bird, principally building its nest in rocky
places not frequented by man. At the
commencement of the breeding-season a
party of birds, numbering from ten to
twenty assemble, and selecting a clear
space among the rocks form ring or cir
Gle, facing inward. Now a small bird
takes its place in the center and begins to
hop about. toss its head, lift its wings and
go through all the strange movements pos
sible, which appear to be watched with
great interest by the rest. When the per-
former is thoroughly exhausted he refires
to the circle, and another bird enters tie
ring, and SO on, until all have been put
through their PAGES, when the pairs proba-
bly, make their selection Often the birds
are so exhausted after the dances that they
can hardly fly, lying painting on the rocks.
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OUR CLIMATE AND FRUITS.
Views of wad-El-ward, Native of Pal
estfne ITnnn fhe ruhiecf

Views of wad-El-Ward, a Native of Pal
estine, Upon the subject.
In conversation with a reporter Of the
REcoRD-UNIoN, DR.. Wad-El-Wsrd, the
celebrated lecturer, who is a native of and
has nearly always resided in Palestine,
that gentleman expressed in highest terms
his appreciation of our city, the Sacra-
mento valley, and California in general.
He said he had Travelled all over the world
but never had found a country possessed
with such inexhanstible resources and ad-
vantages as the Golden State. 1t was his
opinion that The Pacific slope would in the
near feature supply not only the United
States with fruit. bat that our dried
and canned goods would md their way
TO every market in the world. There was
no reason, he said. why Northern and Cen
trail, as well as Southern, California should
not produce as fine, if not superior, oranges
and figs to those grown in Italy, Smyrna
aud other celebrated Eastern fruit districts.
No fruit could reach greater perfection in
this country than the fig. People had told
him they had made many unsuccessful
efforts to import the genuine fig of COM
merce. He was sure there was mistake
here, and it was his opinion that we
have many of the genuine variety,
but had not cultivated them properly
If good variety of white fig were grated
or budded into the wild, or what is known
in Smyrna as the Banyan (as is done in
Smyrnah he had no doubt that with proper
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He NEVER REACHED "AMKS.p-A sanity
individual who tried to offer up prayer at
the meeting of his creditors in Queen Vic
toria street, New York, not long ago, did
not get as far as Amen on that occasion.
Among his creditors was a rough Scotch
man, who, as soon as he got over the
amazement at the coolness of the proceed
ings, shouted out: "Sit doom, ye dommed
internal heepocreet. If We say anither
wurd to the Almighty in my presence dom
me if ] dinna kick ye.n The creditors
r9sred, the petitioner sat down, and the
business OF the meeting proceeded in the
manner usual ON such occasions.-Phts
burg Commercial Gazette.
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The Government Commissioners to Make
an Examination Next Week.

The Government Commissioners to Make
an Examination Next Week.
SAN Francisco, April Sth.-[Special.1 !
The Commissioners appointed by President
Cleveland to examine the recently COM
pleted portion of the California and Oregon
Railroad-Messrs. Theodore Cook of Gin
cinnati, Thaddeus c. Pound of Chippewa
Falls Wis, and Ex-Governor Stoneman of
this State-held their initial meeting and
effected an organization to-day 1t was
unanimously decided to make Mr.. Cook
President of the Commission and Governor
Pound its Secretary. The Secretary was
then, upon motion Of Governor Stoneman,
instructed to address the following letter to
Senator Stanford:
SAN FRANCISCO, April s, 1887.
Hon. Leland Stanford, President Southern Pacific
Railroad CompdnV-DEAR SIR The undersigned
Commissioners appointed by the President of
the United States, January 81, 1887, to examine
the sixty miles of the California and Oregon
Railroad commencing at the end of the
191 S1-100 mile, near the town of Delta, Shasta
county, Cal, and extending thence northward,
have convened for the purpose of proceeding
with such examination, and await your pre-
liminary action required by law in such cases.
The meeting, after some informal con-
versation among the Commissioners, ad-
iourned. What the Commission requires
of Mr.. Stanford before commencing their
work of inspection are maps in profile of
the route and full statistics regarding the
cost of surveying, grading and building the
road. Owing to the present rainy weather,
the tour of inspection will not be COM
menced until Thursday next.
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JUST LIKE TRUoKEE.
The 81 Gem of the Alps" Develops a Ne
Chinese Sensation.

The Gem oil the Alps" Develops New
Chinese Sensation.
TRUcKEE, April Sth.-The water tank
erected by the Cinnamon last year at a cost
of several hundred dollars, and which
supplied Chinatown with all its water
privileges, was blown up last night with
dynamite cartridge. The tank was large
one, built on the side of the hill above the
late Chinatown. A hole nearly ten feet
square was blown through the bottom, and
for a few moments what was left
of the late Chinatown was in per-
feet deluge. 1t is not claimed to have
been done by white men, and two theories
are advanced. The tank was owned by
the two Chinese stores that have been
making active preparations for leaving,
and one theory is that. as they could not
dispose of it, they concluded to destroy it
rather than let it fall into the hands of the
white men. The other theory (Which is
probably the true one) is that some of
the hangerson about the two Chinese stores,
tired of staying here and working
for nothing, decided to p-ecipitate the job,
so that they might get away from their
owners in time for the spring work. The
fact that no perceptible excitement existed
among the Cinnamon gives reasonable
color that one of these theories is correct.
James Van Buren was arrested last night
for cutting off Fong Lees cue, and was to-
day tried by jury, who disagreed, and he
will have a new trial tomorrow.
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TAKEN UNSEEN PIcTUREs.-M. Zenger
observed a blush phosphorescent light
from Mont Blanc after sunset, and he pro-
jected the image of the mountain, when
thus seen, upon plate of certain lu-
miRous paint" q well-known phosphores-
cent substance. The plate thus exposed
was afterward placed in contact with dry
Photographic plate in the dark, and at the
end of an hour the image of the mountain
was obtained upon the dry plate. 1t fol-
lows that the images of objects can. as it
were, be stood up in this way, and after
ward fixed by photography. The process
may be useful in photographing stars, and
perhaps in other ways not thought of at
present.
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ACoIDENrALLY KILLED.
One OF the Jeanette Heroes Meets
Sudden Death.

One OF the Jeanette Heroes Meets a
Sudden Death.
DEs MoINEs, April Sth.-S. W. Morris, one
of the survivors Of the i'll starred Jeannette
expedition, escaped death in the Arctic only
to meet it at his own hands here yesterday.
Morrison has been in this city. from Chi
cago, for the past two weeks for the pur-
pose Of introducing an electrical street.
railway system. He went duck-hunting
yesterday and was going out again to-day,
when his gun was accidentally discharged,
and its contents entered his left side. He
died in half an hour. The intelligence was
at once telegraphed to his wife in Chicago.
Morrison was a genial fellow, about 30
years OF age, happy in his family relations
and prosperous in his business. He shared
all the perils of the Jeanette. His parents
reside in Michigan, and he has brother
in Salamanca, n. Y.
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ORANGE GROVE ECHOES.
An Official Scandal Afoat in the City of
Angels,

Los ANGELES, April Sth.-Hon. J. Marion
Brooks, the newly appointed United States
District Attorney, to-day took formal charge
of his Office.
One thousand feet of side-track and
new depot nave been ordered built at Rosa
mond, and w. C. Ambrose, Roadmaster of
the Middle Division of the Southern Pa
cific, will commence the work tomorrow.
Councilman George F. Stearns to-day
filed charges against j. G. McMullen,
of the San Francisco Bridge Com
pany, Fred Eaton, City Surveyor of
Los Angeles, and other parties Hecharges
them with eollusion in connection
with the contract for the Kuhrtz-street
bridge. The contract was let to the Bridge
Company for S15,s00, and Stearns says
there is s. 900 profit in it. Eaton has fled
counter charges, to the effect that Stearns
offered to vote in favor of the contract be-
ing let to the Bridge Company if that com
pany would purchase the lumber from
him. The Investigating Committee of the
Council meets tomorrow and the matter
will be thoroughly ventilated. Several
criminal libel suits are threatened.
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THE LAW DEMANDED 1T.
A Man Who Was Perhaps Innocent
Hanged for Murder.

Hanged for Murder.
FoRT SMITH (Ark), April Sth.-Patrick
Mccarthy was hanged here to-day for the
murder of Thomas and John Mahoney, in
Cherokee Nation, on the 10Th of February,
1886. The evidence was purely circumstan-
tial, there being no witnesses to the
crime. Mccarthy died protesting his inno-
cence. According to the testimony Nc
Carthy left Redford, Indian Territory, on
the 18th of February, 1886, in company
with Thomas and John Mahoney and Joe
Sproule, bound for Springfield, Mo. The
Mahoney boys had been working on rail-
road and had some money and two good
teams. On the night of the 10th Mccarthy
and Sproule planned the murder and rob-
berry of these boys, and arming themselves
while their victims slept, murdered them ID
cold blood. Mccarthy protested his inno-
cence, and with a crucifix in his hand on
the gallows vowed he knew nothing of the
murder. The general impression here is
that he was innocent, and that in his case
circumstanGal evidence lied. He was a
nervous man of GO years.
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pIscoRpANT FACTIONS.
The United Labor Party Splits on the BED
Flag

CHICAGO, April Sth-There is a lively
row in progress in the United Labor party.
Charges of sell-outs and threats of driving
certain elements out of the party have been
made in that partys headquarters. The
fight is between the Conservatives and the
Socialists. The former, in loud terms, pro-
claim that the Socialist element has alarmed
property-owners; that they did not desire
to win, and that they manipulated the Con-
vention and campaign to the exclusion of
the Conservative element; for all of which
reasons they must go. The red fag must
also be kept out of their party campaigns
in the future.
The Socialists, on the other hand, claim
that they originated the party; that they
worked in its best interests that they were
sold out in many cases; that the worst
kickers against them are for Doodle; -
that the vote polled was theirs; that they
have the party; that they are in the interes'
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PRUssIAN GAME.-For the year ending
with March, 1856, the value of the game
killed in the woods and forests of Prussia
is estimated at s., 100000. The keepers are
said to have greatly added to the impor-
tance of the national game-bag by their
vigilance in protecting the valuable game
from the vermin which destroy it. They
killed during the period named more than
a quarter of million head of vermin,
among which are reckoned foxes, stoats,
weasels, martens, polecats, badgers offers,
wildcats, and birds Of prey. Only four
wolves were taken, the curious fact having
been observed that the German wolves fol-
lowed the German army into France dur
ing the Einter of 1870 and have remained
there.
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He Wasn't SESTIMENTAL.-Last summer
pretty and romantic city girl spent the
summer on Maine farm and got up a
mild Irritation with the young man of the
house. He was not particularly bold, and
so one evening as she swung in the ham
mock an the moonlight, she coyly said to
him, What is Gods best gift TO man r.
color come and go in her cheeks, and then
said decisively "A good hoss l think"
The young woman said it was damp and
she would go into the house. -ErchaHge.